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The enterprise mobility management market is consolidating, and only vendors with the strongest offerings can survive. That is the judgment of John Marshall, founder and general manager of AirWatch by VMware, one of the surviving EMM vendors.

I'm sure you have heard that virtualization giant VMware has agreed to acquire enterprise mobility management (EMM) firm AirWatch for around $1.54 billion. What does this acquisition mean for the enterprises struggling with mobility?

The U.S. virtual desktop infrastructure market is forecast by TechNavio to increase at an 8.5 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years, fueled in part by the need for secure access to enterprise data by mobile devices.

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